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by badminton1 3680 days ago
Star schema... what is this, the year of our lord 1995?
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ngould 3680 days ago
The star schema is still very useful, even though it wasn't invented in the last six months.
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SmellTheGlove 3680 days ago
Star schema still has its (very prominent) place with many applications. If my information has some natural structure, I'm not going to go out of my way to un-structure it, and star is sometimes the data structure that best suits the data itself.
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badminton1 3680 days ago
Yes sure, but it's really hard to scale. Scale on horizontally, not vertically. Vertical scalability is not true scalability.
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